Daily Archive: August 24, 2003

Background: Kathey is one of my best friends who used to live in Sweden, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. Russell is her husband. Russell sent me this email, titled, “Damn you two!” The three of us were in a house together and a small but very dangerous looking bear was trying to get in and he was very dangerous because he had very long black claws and he was very angry looking and he was trying to knock down the door and the door was very flimsy and was about to break off and I was trying to hold...

Sleeping in must motivate me somehow. Maybe it just clears my head. 🙂 Anders took the kids to a birthday party this afternoon and was gone for three hours. During which I did pages 4 & 5. They’re facing pages and the colors are very similar just like in the last set. I love the dried leaves, they’re called Monet leaves, but I don’t know if that’s the actual name of the plant or what. These are the ones I was talking about, galestorm, if you want some, as I have LOTS.

Last night at the crayfish party, one of my friends who had been peeling and eating shrimp, put the peeled heads on her fingers and waved them around, and poked her 1-year-old kid in the nose with them, which he thought was hilarious. I, however, can’t find a word powerful enough to describe how gross I thought it was. ICK It’s the cricket’s fault. That I have this bug-leg phobia. Them, and the cockroaches. Years ago, when I was home during summer vacation from college, I was in the room that was supposed to be mine and my sister’s, but...